ENDING HUNGER AND POVERTYA S N A P S H OT O F P RO G R E S S

A New Approach for New ResultsThrough Feed the Future, the president’s global hunger and food security initiative, we are partnering with countries to build a more food-secure future by helping them overcome agriculture and nutrition challenges with entrepreneurship, partnership, innovation and a focus on results.

Feed the Future has rallied the global community to dramatically transform the way we approach development and, in doing so, has made possible what just a few years ago seemed unimaginable: the end of extreme poverty and global hunger in our lifetimes.

After just a few years of collaboration through this new approach, local capacity for lasting food security, good nutrition, economic growth and resilience continue to grow stronger in countries supported by Feed the Future.

Photos by Olivier Asselin, USAID Yaajeende (cover); CIAT (this page); Marie Cusick, NOURISH (right); Neil Palmer, CIAT (far right).

INDICATOR FY 2011c FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015

IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY

Farmers and others who have applied improved technologies or management practices as a result of U.S. Government assistance

1,226,119 5,248,659 6,525,677 6,799,319 9,038,480

Hectares tended with improved technologies or management practices as a result of U.S. Government assistance

2,397,456 3,241,549 3,747,065 3,177,123 5,329,185

Individuals who have received U.S. Government-supported, long-term agriculture sector productivity or food security training

905 932 928 1,300 1,299

IMPROVED USE OF NUTRITION SERVICES

Children under 5 reached by U.S. Government-supported nutrition programs d

8,814,584 12,038,528 12,699,186 12,343,776 17,678,845

Health facilities with established capacity to manage acute undernutrition

85 1,141 848 2,029 2,959

People trained in child health and nutrition through U.S. Government-supported programs

9,865 221,962 566,242 1,441,042 2,675,144

EXPANDED MARKETS AND TRADE

Value of incremental sales (collected at farm level) attributed to Feed the Future (USD) e

38,080,821 100,366,589 174,302,362 532,082,927 829,439,579

Public-private partnerships formed as a result of Feed the Future assistance

442 544 1,149 1,294 f 1,555

Food security private enterprises (for profit), producers organizations, water users associations, women’s groups, trade and business associations, and community-based organizations receiving U.S. Government assistance

13,856 44,100 59,866 95,952 123,654

Number of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including farmers, receiving U.S. Government assistance to access loans

6,740 205,991 332,489 883,423 1,227,391

Value of agricultural and rural loans (USD) 208,750,220 121,925,081 184,813,765 671,831,928 877,866,614

Value of new private sector investment in the agriculture sector or food chain leveraged by Feed the Future implementation (USD)

26,876,561 115,301,742 162,985,629 151,952,806 154,007,901

Snapshot of Feed the Future Global Results a,b

a Indicators are reported for Feed the Future focus and aligned countries in that fiscal year. (Aligned countries are those in which the U.S. Government supports ongoing agricultural development programs but are not designated as Feed the Future focus countries. For a list of Feed the Future focus countries, visit https://feedthefuture.gov.) Participating agencies do not necessarily report on all countries where they have programs and may only report on certain common indicators. The Office of Food for Peace additionally reports on Feed the Future indicators in non-aligned as well as non-focus countries where it has development programs, as does the Peace Corps. b U.S. Government agencies reporting into the Feed the Future Monitoring System (FTFMS) include the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Departments of Agriculture and the Treasury, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Peace Corps, and the U.S. African Development Foundation. Feed the Future began tracking results in FY2011, when the initiative developed multi-year strategies, defined its zones of influence, and implemented its monitoring and evaluation system. Some results from FY2011 to FY2014 have been adjusted based on additional information provided after publication for previous years. For more detailed information, visit the Feed the Future Indicator Handbook. c Reporting was incomplete in 2011, the first year of the FTFMS. Figures do not reflect the full impact of Feed the Future programs that year. d This number represents the aggregate of country-wide results from nutrition interventions that are delivered through Feed the Future, Food for Peace Title II Development, and Global Health Nutrition programs as part of a multi-sectoral effort to combat malnutrition. Individual USAID projects are instructed to count children only once even if they are reached several times, although in some cases partner information systems are only able to track contacts, not individual children. e Incremental sales can also be described as “new sales” because they reflect increases in sales above the value at baseline. They comprise a portion of total sales, which equaled $2.28 billion in FY2015. f The actual value for this indicator has been updated to correct an error in the 2015 Feed the Future Progress Report.

• Working directly with host-country governments and supporting their own inclusive plans for agriculture-led economic growth and nutrition.

• Pioneering a whole-of-government approach that leverages the skills and resources of several U.S. federal departments and agencies.

• Partnering with the full range of actors needed to transform food and agriculture systems, including the research community, private sector, civil society and U.S. universities, with a focus on empowering women.

• Accelerating research to develop more than 900 transformative technologies and innovations for food security, from better seeds to new animal vaccines and mobile banking.

• Basing strategies and decisions on sound evidence and collecting comprehensive results to monitor progress and promote transparency.

The path to prosperity and middle-income status for nearly every country in the world has run through agriculture. And for years, development agencies focused on agriculture as a means to boost economic growth that ends hunger, poverty and malnutrition. But over time, investment in agriculture became increasingly neglected. The world was making progress in cutting extreme poverty in half and halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, yet these gains were fragile and uneven. Millions of people still faced chronic hunger and malnutrition.

By the time food prices spiked in 2007 and 2008, it was clear a change was needed.

Global Challenge, Global Opportunity

Nearly 800 million people globally suffer from chronic hunger, much of which is rooted in poverty.

Poor nutrition costs low- and middle-income countries up to 8 percent of their potential economic growth.

The majority of the world’s poor live in rural areas of developing countries, where many rely on agriculture for a living.

By reducing undernutrition, we help prevent the underlying cause of nearly half of all deaths of young children.

In 2009, as hunger and instability increased amid food, fuel and financial turmoil, President Obama rallied global leaders to refocus on addressing the root causes of global food insecurity through agricultural development and nutrition. Through this commitment, Feed the Future was born.

Thanks in part to strong bipartisan support, Feed the Future’s development model has dramatically improved the way the U.S. Government does business, facilitating effective, evidence-based, multi-stakeholder development to achieve lasting success by:

Why Agriculture, Why Now?

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PERCENT

The U.S. Government is contributing to progress, and new data* show:

Later this year, Feed the Future will release data about changes in poverty and stunting in more of its 19 partner countries.

*Data represent populations in the geographical areas where Feed the Future concentrates all or most of its efforts. Data compiled from primary and secondary sources. Numbers have been rounded.

CAMBODIA

HONDURAS LIBERIA

RWANDABANGLADESH

GHANA

23%

32% 19%

14%12%

17%

26% 12%

CHILDHOOD STUNTING

CHILDHOOD STUNTING POVERTY

CHILDHOOD STUNTINGCHILDHOOD STUNTING

CHILDHOOD STUNTING

POVERTY POVERTY

from 2012 to 2015

from 2010 to 2015

from 2011 to 2014

from 2012 to 2015

from 2012 to 2015

from 2011 to 2014

from 2012 to 2015

from 2009 to 2015

MALAWI

14%

18%

CHILDHOOD STUNTING

POVERTY

from 2010 to 2015

from 2010 to 2015

ETHIOPIA

12%POVERTY

from 2013 to 2015

The Path AheadFeed the Future is showing that, with the right approach, the U.S. Government can move the dial on ending poverty, hunger and malnutrition. Partnerships, political will and country ownership are making progress possible to end extreme poverty and global hunger in our lifetimes.

What we do in the next few years will be critical. Food security is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. To succeed, we must explore new ways to bring all sectors and funding streams to the table to support and improve our efforts as we face ever more complex and interrelated challenges ahead.

Weather patterns are changing, urban and rural populations are growing, and consumption patterns are shifting. We must continue to build resilience and reduce the root causes that give rise to recurrent food crises. More than ever, the development model that Feed the Future embodies is critical for scaling positive changes and ensuring they last as we build a more food-secure future together.

F E E D T H E F U T U R E . G O V

Since 2013, farmers’ sales of Feed the Future-supported crops increased

30 percent, on average. For poor farming families, this means more income to:

Economic empowerment is good for rural families, their communities and countries, and the world. It all adds up.

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